Senior Client Manager

Summary of Role & Key Responsibilities

• Lead client engagements across the full lifecycle, from initial needs assessment to delivering measurable impact. 
• Build and direct cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality client delivery and outcomes. 
• Partner with clients to identify, frame, and address opportunities for sustainable performance improvement. 
• Guide clients through strategic, structural, operational, and management transformations to achieve lasting results. 
• Facilitate executive and cross-functional alignment to secure buy-in and resources for successful implementation. 
• Oversee research and analysis efforts, including data collection, synthesis, and interpretation to inform decision-making. 
• Conduct interviews with key stakeholders, including employees and leadership, to uncover insights and validate findings. 
• Design and lead workshops to foster collaboration and co-create solutions. 
• Diagnose organizational challenges, develop hypotheses, and formulate actionable solutions. 
• Prepare compelling business proposals and deliver strategic recommendations to client leadership. 
• Support implementation of solutions, ensuring clients have the tools, guidance, and support needed for success. 
• Lead and mentor project teams, including analysts and consultants, to drive performance and professional growth. 
• Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, building strong relationships and ensuring alignment throughout the engagement.

Key Requirements & Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 7+ years’ experience in an inhouse sustainability practitioner role, management consultancy, or client management in technical or specialist sustainability consultancy 
• Experience working at, and navigating all levels of an organization, driving decisions and direction through influence, including executive and senior business stakeholders, 
• Experience working in teams, and leading teams 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written 
• Problem-solving and strategic planning capabilities 
• Analytical skills 
• Flexibility in mindset and approaches 
• Commercial awareness and understanding of business environments

Benefits

• Comprehensive and competitive group health, dental, and vision insurance plans for you and your dependents
• FSA (Flexible Spending Account) benefit (US only)
• Anthesis provides 100% Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance benefit.
• In addition, Anthesis covers 100% of Short & Long‐Term Disability Insurance benefits.
• Anthesis provides a 3% contribution into retirement plans, and you may elect to contribute more each pay period with a pre‐tax deduction up to a certain cap.
• Anthesis provides Employee Assistance Program and Travel Insurance
• Annual allotment of PTO, in addition to 56 hours of sick leave, paid company paid holidays, and more.
• An opportunity to participate in the Anthesis Employee Participation Plan (EPP), an industry-pioneering employee incentive plan that allows all employees to be rewarded for the growth in the equity value of Anthesis. 
• Work within a highly motivated team in an innovative and rapidly growing global company.
• Opportunity to have a direct impact and be a key part of the growth and development of the business and the team.
• Work collaboratively on projects that have an impact on the sustainability and climate change goals/challenges for clients.
• Opportunity to work alongside of, collaborate with and learn from sustainability Subject Matter Experts (SME) who are passionate about the work they do and the impact Anthesis can have.